08:40 Thanks to whoever is choosing the music playlist for #SQLPass #Summit13 Awesome choice of beats./* Live tweet of commentary from Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Data Platform Group */

09:09 Backup to both systems, to the cloud and onprem. This is awesome stuff. Specify directory path and file types that you want to capture. The storage location in Azure credentials, and then the type of encryption and compression that you want. Install that on the system, and then you go to your backups, and it just works. 09:10 Gah! network has gone down. Just keep truckin’ on, people.09:15 We’re baaack!09:16 Pushing the boundaries: cloud-based App is mission critical. A next generation solutions built on Azure DB. Application is successful and scales.Redefining mission critical in the cloud.SQL Database Web and Business:Highly scalableCost-effective, managedSQLDatabase Premium preview :Predictable performanceBusiness-critical capabilities

Scale and performance. Customer has a safety blanket for scalability and security. 09: 18 Sometimes information isn’t in the businesses’ control Making it easier to deal with #BigData. Query all data.

Windows Azure HDInsight – simplify Hadoop projects

DW Virtual Machine in Windows aZURE – accelerate data warehousing

PDW with PolybasE – combine structured and unstructured data

09:25 Real time insights for everyone – pushing the boundaries09:26 I just got my ‘Love your Data’ ribbon from Karen (@Datachick) Very happy!09:27 Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Map, Power BI Q&A, and Power BI sites. News coming up. 09:31 @kamalh onstage now. ‘We respect the privacy of our users, unlike some other companies out there…’ oooh! Fighting talk. He has led the Microsoft BI Unit for years so listen up people. Kamal is doing a demo in Power Query. We are doing Online Search in Excel 2013. I showed this facility off yesterday in my joint Big Data precon with Allan Mitchell.